Patient hoist

Details Patient hoist Patient hoist

1993-07-15

1994-08-16

Huppert, Michael S.

Traversing hoists

Having means facilitating assembly or disassembly

Of traversing hoist from support

5 871, 104126, 212175, 212205, A61G 710

Patent

active

053379080

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a patient hoist for use in a room having a floor and at least one pair of parallel spaced walls at opposite sides of the floor. The hoist includes a frame having a pair of track beams and a pair of connecting beams, and a plurality of legs for supporting the frame elevated above the floor, four of the legs being corner legs having first and second beam engagement members extending therefrom for slidably engaging respective ones of the beams. Each corner leg is connected respectively to an end extremity of one track beam and an end extremity of one connecting beam for joining the beams. The connections between the corner legs and the beams are telescopically adjustable for locating at least one pair of the beams proximate the walls at opposite sides of the floor. A lift unit supported by the frame for lifting the patient includes a carriage beam having wheels for rollably supporting the carriage beam on the track beams, a lift carriage rollably supported for movement along the carriage beam, and a hoist unit supported by the carriage that has a depending retractable tension member for controllably lifting the patient. At least one pair of lateral support members projecting from opposite sides of the frame prevents horizontal movement of the frame in a direction perpendicular to the walls, and a spaced pair of the lateral support members contacts at least one of the walls for preventing plan rotation of the frame.

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